Rhoda Levine

Rhoda Levine

Rhoda Levine is an opera-director, choreographer and a faculty-member at several schools of music.

Levine was born in New York, NY. She wrote the lyrics for "Opus Zoo" by Luciano Berio and has also written children's novels. She is the artistic director of Play It By Ear, an improvisational opera group. She is the recipient of the National Institute for Music Theater Award. She got her BA at Bard College.In April and May 2008, she will teach at the John Duffy Composers Institute, in Norfolk, VA.

Operas directed by Rhoda Levine

Cape Town Opera

*Porgy and Bess (South African premiere (1996))

Chicago Opera Theatre

*Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Victor Ullman

Glimmerglass Opera

*The Good Soldier Schweik

Kentucky Opera

*Susannah
*The Marriage of Figaro

Lyric Opera Of Chicago

*Orpheus Descending (World premiere)

Nederlandse Opera

* Der Kaiser von Atlantis (world premiere (1975)) - Viktor Ullman
* Le Nozze di Figaro (1986)

New York City Opera

*Medea (directing debut, 1982)
*Of Mice and Men (1997)
*Little Women (2003)
*Lizzie Borden (1996)
*Rigoletto
*The Ballad of Baby Doe
*Laurie
*X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (world premiere)
*From the House of the Dead (American premiere)
*Die Soldaten
*Mathis der Maler (1995)

Opera Omaha

*Wakonda's Dream

Opera Theater of St. Louis

*Treemonisha
*La Bohème
*A Death in the Family (1986)
*Under the double moon (World premiere)

an Diego Opera

* Madama Butterfly (1982)
* La Bomème (1985)
* Lucia di Lammermoor (1989)
* Of Mice and men (1999)

anta Fe Opera

*Figaro

Further:

Productions at Belgium’s Opéra National; Scottish Opera; San Francisco Opera; Festival of the Two Worlds; Cabrillo Festival; and Holland Festival; directed and choreographed productions on and off-Broadway, in London’s West End, and for CBS and WNET; She directed the concert tour 'Kabbalah' by Stewart Wallace.

Faculty

She used to be a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University and currently teaches at Manhattan School of Music (since 1992) and Mannes College.

Books

* Arthur (1962)
* Three Ladies beside the sea (1963)
* Harrison loved his umbrella (1964)
* He was there from the day we moved in (1968), also translated in German ('Er war da und sass im Garten') and French ('Il etait la, il attendait)
* Herbert situation (1969)


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